Katherine Hoover, born in West Virginia in 1937, is a successful flutist and composer. More than a dozen
of her compositions have been recorded, several more than once (and her Kokopeli for solo flute at least
four times). However. there has never been an entire LP or CD devoted entirely to her music until now.
Intellectually stimulating yet accessible,
Hoover's music has been very popular with audiences outside "new music" circles.

Night Skies includes four orchestral works of Hoover's, all first performed since 1987.
Three of them -Two Sketches, Eleni: A Greek Tragedy, and the title work--are performed by
the Slovak Radio
Symphony
orchestra under the direction of American conductor Joel Eric Suben. In Eleni the vocal
soloist is
mezzo-soprano Denisa Danielova. These recordings were supervised by the composer. The
Double Concerto is
played by a U.S. orchestra making its recording debut: the Wisconsin Philharmonia, conducted by
Vartan Manoogian, with violin soloists David Perry and Suzanne Beia.

Night Skies was inspired by the famous Henri-Edmond Cross painting, now in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. That painting, reproduced with the permission and assistance
of the Museum, makes for most appropriate and impressive cover art.
All of these compositions have been peformed successfully in the U.S. to critical and audience
acclaim

Night Skies: "Hoover's music mixes elements of old and new, in a masterful blending
of old and new into a cohesive whole." --Harrisburg Patriot-News

Two Sketches:"Hoover's
Two Sketches scored with immediate accessibility and an
impressive combination of depth, maturity, and power." --San Francisco Eraminer

Eleni:"The first standing ovation for a contemporary work in our orchestra's history." Carolann
Martin,
conductor, South East Kansas Symphony

Parnassus CDs are distributed exclusively in the USA by Qualiton. In the UK by Regis Records
Records
, in Italy by Fenice, in Germany by Geberhardt Musikvertrieb and in Japan by Tobu Land Trading.
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